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A Doctor's Drug Studies
Turn Into Fraud New York Times May 17, 1999
By KURT EICHENWALD and GINA KOLATA WHITTIER, Calif. -- If ever there was a wonder boy in
the lucrative business of drug testing, it was Dr. Robert Fiddes.
A rash of deaths,
Inquiries find neglect a key factor
A true fish story Fish breath may be the only side effect to the latest antidepressant.
ADHD Linked to Early
Abnormal Brain Development
Against Biologic
Psychiatry by David Kaiser, M.D. December 1996 As a practicing
psychiatrist, I have watched with growing dismay and outrage the rise and triumph of the
hegemony known as biologic psychiatry
American Academy of
Neurology Declares Vagus Nerve Stimulation Safe and Effective [for Epilepsy]
American Journal of
Psychiatry 134:9, September 1977. pp: 1010-1013.
Arizona's system for
mentally ill is wasteful, neglectful, report says
Brain Research Reveals Structural
Differences In Violent Offenders with
Mental Disorders LONDON, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- New brain imaging
data has revealed
structural differences in the brains of violent offenders with mental disorders
CDC sorry for diverting
fatigue-study funds STAR NET Thursday,
14 October 1999
CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE CARE
& RESEARCH
Closing of brain vs.
Mind 'divide'
urged
Cognitive Behavior
Therapy Equivalent To Medication for Severe Depression By.Am J Psychiatry
1999
Commentary: Genes,
Neurochemicals, and Persons Paula S. Derry, PhD Independent
Practice Baltimore, Md.
"Could
Schizophrenia Be a Viral Zoonosis Transmitted From House Cats?"
By E. Fuller Torrey and Robert H. Yolken
Cyberonics
Announces FDA Approval of Expanded Pilot Study of VNS(TM) In Depression
Don't Ask Questions: A
Psychotherapeutic Strategy For Treatment Of Involuntary Clients
Drug companies
enrich Brown professor
EFFECTS OF THE MENTAL
HEALTH PARITY ACT OF 1996 March 1999. This report provides information
on the effects of the federal Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA), which became
effective on January 1, 1998
Efforts made to
intercept and prevent schizophrenia
Eight Factors Found To
Be Most Critical In Evaluating Suicide Risk
Eugenics gone but effects
linger
FEDERALLY FUNDED RELAPSE PRODUCING EXPERIMENTS in PSYCHIATRY:
Few
with mental illness get adequate care-US study
First-Year
Medical Students Consider Psychiatry Least Desirable Specialty
Forum to discuss protecting prison inmates
as drug test subjects The BOSTON GLOBE By
Robert Whitaker, Globe Correspondent, 10/11/99
FOUND WANTING: THE TRUTH
McMAN'S DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR WEEKLY (Oct 20, 1999 Vol1 No 20)
Friends, pop culture affect
weight control among teen girls
Hallucinations and
illusions of non-psychiatric aetiologies
Heart-rate test to measure mental
disorders
4/20/99 The Vancouver Sun Pamela Fayerman, Sun Health Issues
Reporter Vancouver Sun. The first physical test developed to confirm mental disorders such
as depression and anxiety will soon be tested on Vancouver patients.
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- HOSPS FIGHT FOR
FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT
By GREGG BIRNBAUM Many of the city's top hospitals and med schools are
lobbying the state to loosen proposed regulations designed to protect vulnerable patients
in research experiments
Is Mental Pain Mental
Illness?
The Justice Department
concludes that violations at the hospital led to patient suicides and
deaths. By MICHAEL HEMPHILL, THE ROANOKE TIMES
King/Drew Medical Research
Suspended
- Kinkel's Brain Has Signs
of Illness
By JEFF BARNARD Associated Press Writer
Life Expectancy and Causes of
Death in a Population Treated for Serious Mental Illness
Magnet therapy reduces
"voices" heard by schizophrenics
Management strategies for
problem behaviors in the patient with dementia.
(Geriatrics)
Many Mentally Ill Americans
Jailed By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
- Medical errors a
major killer
Prominent
doctors' group calls for mandatory reporting
Medical Journal Cites
Misleading Drug Research
Mental health care:
Quality not quantity Research shown that the quality of treatment is far more important then
the quantity.
MENTAL HEALTH PARITY
ACT LARGELY POSITIVE March 30, 1999 SAMHSA STUDY SHOWS IMPACT
- Mentally Disabled Often
Overlooked by Technology Employers
New Report From
Computerworld Uncovers Discrimination in Technology Hiring for the Mentally
Disabled
National Survey Shows
That Half of All U.S. Women Suffer From Anxiety Symptoms and Worry
NBAC Summary of Preliminary
Findings Adequacy of Federal Protections for Human Subjects in Research Extending
Federal Protections for Human Research Subjects to All Americans
- New hope for people with
schizophrenia
APA Monitor Volume
31, No. 2, February 2000
New
Research Casts Doubts on False Memory Syndrome
NEW
STUDY EXAMINES THE CONFIDENCE OF HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELORS IN RECOGNIZING TEENS
AT RISK FOR SUICIDE
Newer
Antidepressant Drugs As Effective As Older-Generation Treatments ROCKVILLE, MD -- March 18, 1999 -- Newer
categories of antidepressant drugs are equal yet effective as older-generation
antidepressants
NIMH studies
tighter rules on conflicts By Dolores Kong and Alison Bass, Globe Staff,
10/08/99
'Not
Proud of It Right Now' By Robert Langreth and Stephen D. Moore
Olsten
Health Services Reports Rehabilitation in a Natural Setting Leads to
Improved Outcomes, Significant Savings
October 5, 1999
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- Painting insanity black
Why are there more black schizophrenics?
Placebo Nation By JOHN HORGAN The NY
TIMES March 21, 1999 Over the past decade, psychiatrists
and the news media have proclaimed the wonders of Prozac and the rest of a new generation
of antidepressant drugs, known collectively as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
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Poor Canadians find work
as human guinea pigs By Ian Karleff
PRO-FORCE PSYCHIATRIST E. FULLER
TORREY MOVES BRAIN LAB TO U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TORREY'S
MOVE REVEALS CLOSE TIES BETWEEN THEPRO-FORCE CRUSADER AND CLINTON ADMINISTRATION
Probe Checks Mental
Hospital Deaths Saturday October 2 1:09 AM ET By CASSANDRA BURRELL
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP)
Questions raised about studies using
mentally ill CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Saturday, April
17, 1999 Feds scrutinize 3 UC projects BY ANNE MICHAUD The Cincinnati Enquirer
Radical Study on
Schizophrenia May Be Expanded --- Researchers Seek to Discover Whether
Antipsychotic Drugs Can Prevent the Disease
RESEARCHER PROPOSES NEW WELFARE
SYSTEM By Candace Kay Lee Contributing Writer Researchers and
activists who have been striving for years to eliminate poverty in the United States have
been taking the wrong approach, according to a new study by a UC Berkeley dean.
Researchers edging
closer to preventing schizophrenia
Researchers say
psychiatric studies exclude the people they intend to help
Scientists
Seek a Few Good Brains
Schizophrenics
over-medicated
Sleep Treats Mania in
Bipolar Disorder Clinical Psychiatry News, Bethesda, Md. -- Sleep.
It's good for what ails bipolar patients.
Study Assesses Mental
Disability Payment Risks
Study: More children
have woes than thought
STUDY WILL EXAMINE CONSUMER-RUN
PROGRAMS' ROLE IN TREATMENT Mental Health Weekly, 06/14/99, Vol. 9
Issue 24, p4, 2p
TRUE AND FAIR?
The
Undiscovered Mind : How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication,
and Explanation Publisher: The Free Press
by John Horgan Book Reviews Amazon.com
U.S. Suspends Research at VA Hospital in
L.A. By TERENCE MONMANEY, Times Medical Writer To protect patients in clinical studies, the Department of Veterans
Affairs is taking the unprecedented step of suspending research activities at the West Los
Angeles veterans hospital, the nation's largest VA health care facility
VIOLENT OPPOSITION,
Escalating protests may be driving away some researchers
Why care about mental
illness? Task force report shows community needs to act on
concern that could affect any family
